A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A day of legal smoke, campaign-finance stink, and a fresh reminder that Trump-world’s favorite hobby is turning “nothing to see here” into a court filing problem.
December 6, 2018 delivered a compact little pile-up of Trump-world headaches: new reporting and legal filings revived the ugly question of whether the Trump campaign and the NRA coordinated in ways election law forbids, while the Cohen case was hurtling toward the kind of court document that would make any White House communications shop reach for a paper bag. It was the sort of day when the facts did the punching and the denials did the flailing.
Trump’s ecosystem kept trying to treat every document dump like a messaging problem. The filings kept insisting it was a legal problem, which is usually the more expensive kind.
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By December 6, Michael Cohen’s sentencing fight was setting up a damaging federal filing that would soon describe Trump as central to the hush-money scheme. Even before the memo landed, the case was signaling that Trump’s old fixer had become a live legal threat rather than a one-man embarrassment.
Fresh reporting and complaint filings on December 6 and 7 put new pressure on the Trump campaign’s relationship with the NRA’s 2016 ad operation, reviving the accusation that the two sides used the same vendor and overlapping personnel in ways that may have crossed the line from friendly alignment into illegal coordination.